Question

Is there a good equivalent implementation of strptime() available for Windows? Unfortunately, this POSIX function does not appear to be available.

Open Group description of strptime – summary: it converts a text string such as 'MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM:SS' into a tm struct, the opposite of strftime().

Answer 1

An open-source version (BSD license) of strptime() can be found here: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/time/strptime.c?rev=HEAD

You’ll need to add the following declaration to use it:

char *strptime(const char * __restrict, const char * __restrict, struct tm * __restrict);